Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP/GNURADIO Commercially

[Jeff Brower]

Joel-

Your question doesn't make sense to me.  If your clients pay you to develop 
source code that derives from, or
partially incorporates, GPL licensed code then they own the developed source, 
not you.  They are responsible for
license issues with the newly developed code.

If someone were to ask you, the answer is simply "it's not my code".  The only 
way you would still be involved is if
there was some IP that you owned and licensed to your client.  Is there?

-Jeff

> I understand that if you just provide the binaries to a customer, you must 
> give them a means to get the source code,
> and if they choose to distribute that binary to others, they'll just pass on 
> that original offer and hence you're on
> the hook for providing anyone with source thereafter.  Yes?
>
> However...
>
> If I provide the binaries & source code to a customer (and make it clear that 
> the source code will always be included
> with any binary I deliver to them), can't I just stipulate that the customer 
> must then provide the binaries & source
> bundled together if they choose to redistribute it?  E.g., the "offer to 
> obtain the source code" would ready something
> like, "you should have already received the source with this binary file; if 
> you haven't, the person or company you
> received the binary from must provide you with the source."
>
> I'm thinking of the scenario here where you're a consultant and work on a 
> bunch of small projects using GPL'd code,
> but you *always* deliver the full source code along with your binaries to 
> your own customers.  Having to then deal
> with anyone and everyone your own customer chooses to provide "the product" 
> to then seems quite onerous for a
> single-man consulting company.
>
> I'd appreciate your input; thanks!  (Disclaimer: I realize you're not a 
> lawyer and you're just giving your personal
> interpretation and not professional legal advice on these matters.)
>
> ---Joel